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I read with much amusement on animeanime.jp about the deal with fansubbers. In a nutshell, fansubbing on the internet has been around for a long time and is becoming a big problem but there has been no proper measures to tackle the problem. The problem has finally become too big to ignore and in April 11 this year, there was a conference on how to deal with internet piracy. (インターネット上の海賊版対策協議・連絡会) The attendees consisted of Tokyo Anime Center, "a committee that thinks about 21st century comic and rights" (21世紀のコミック作家の著作権を考える会), AJA (The Association of Japanese Animation), and JVA (Japan Video Software Association). On top of that, METI, MOFA and the "agency of cultural affairs" also participated in this big meeting to discuss how to fight piracy.

Then, on May 12th, the "counter measure for rights abuse via P2P" assocation was established. (ファイル共有ソフトを悪用した著作権侵害対策協議会)

I don't know the content of the article but from the Japanese industry POV "rights abuse via P2P" means first of all Japanese sharing with Japanese. From what you write its not clear if this is about fansubbers at all.

If it is then good luck trying to hunt down zero presence fansubbers around the globe from Japan.